Assume these joined St. Petersburg:

Murmansk Oblast Republic of Karelia Leningrad Oblast Pskov Oblast Novgorod Oblast

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    8 days ago

    I am from SPb, ant it would be cool.

    1. North-west is a self-sustained region: machinery, ageiculture, large port, a 5-mil city you name it. We could live separately and be fine
    2. Russia is called a federation, but in the reality, power of regions were largely taking away. So it is about sending taxes to Moscow and getting shit in return.
    3. People are more “European”, before war a large part of more active/younger people were shopping/taking vacations in Finland, going to Estonia, or travel further through those countries. Same with Finns buying stuff in Russia or partying in SPb.
      With all the general closeness, I absolutely can see Saint-Petersburg and the region being a separate country with close ties (no-visa, EU member?) with Nordic and Baltic countries.
      But I guess it’s not happening, and by writing the things above I became a terrorist, “promoting rebellion and dissolution of the Russian state”